Posts Tagged ‘solar water heating’

If you have had a solar water heating system installed in an area with rainy/cloudy winter months, you may need to make seasonal adjustments to the timer that controls the system's electrical backup.
Now that the Western Cape has started experiencing its typical Winter rainfall again, this has meant less hours...

Aquasolar now offers the popular Chromagen range of solar water heating systems in Charcoal Black.
The new charcoal black range of solar water heating systems blends in well with most darker roof tiles and other roofing materials like tin and asbestos. This is an attractive alternative for home owners who prefer...

The first thing a lot of clients ask us is how to claim their Eskom rebate. We always tell them not to worry because we do the claim for them. And we have never had a rebate claim rejected, ever.
But many people still want to know how the process works. So we have prepared a crash course on the Eskom...

South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday officially launched the National Solar Water Heating (SWH) programme in Winterveldt, north-west of Pretoria, where some 270 SWH units have already been installed. The government has the ambition of installing one-million solar water heaters across South Africa by 2014,...

The Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) believe that the solar water heater (SWH) market is set to grow rapidly in South Africa and aim to install one-million SWHs by 2014.
The tariff increase of 24,8% requested by State-owned power utility Eskom, as well as the reincarnation...

Cape Town - Exponential growth in the market for solar water heaters forms the backbone of the green economy part of the government's new Industrial Policy Action Plan (Ipap2).
The plan's objective is to increase the installation of solar water heaters from the current 35 000 a year to 250 000 a year over the next...

Look on The Supplier page on Eskom's Demand Site website (www.eskomdsm.co.za) to see which suppliers and products are registered with the programme. A solar water heater can provide you with between 50% and 90% of a home's total hot water requirements, and since solar energy is free, this translates into a saving of up...

Johannesburg - State-owned power utility Eskom is looking to solar water heating to relieve pressure on its overloaded power grid.
On Wednesday, Eskom published an advertisement in the business section of The Star newspaper, in which it asked for proposals to investigate possible funding sources and strategies for...